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circa 1861-1864
My Life is Like the Summer Rose and Heavily Falls the Rain
One is a soldier's poem, the other is a metaphor for the loss of life in the war perhaps...?
GLC06588.232
February 22, 1865
Southern churchman. [Vol. 31, no. 8 (February 22, 1865)]
University of Virginia, New Theology During the War, Reverend Minnigerodes Sermon About our Reverses on the Battlefield.
GLC05959.60.03
1864-1865
Pratt, Oliver D., fl. 1863-1864
[Diary of Oliver D. Pratt]
Autograph manuscript signed. Military content about war in Virginia. Written in pencil. Dated October 1, 1864-June 24, 1865,
GLC01003.02
1938-1958
[Navy pin with three ribbons and bronze stars]
Navy pin with Asiatic-Pacific Campaign, World War II Victory, and National Defense Service ribbons. Includes three bronze stars.
GLC09555.20
1943-1946
United States. Army Air Forces
[U. S. Army 2nd Service Command Patch]
U.S. Army issue 2nd Service Command patch. Represented the second branch of the Army during World War II.
GLC09620.412.01
GLC09620.412.02
GLC09620.413.01
GLC09620.413.02
GLC09620.413.03
GLC09620.413.04
1777-1790
John Ely collection of miscellaneous documents mostly receipts [Decimalized.01-.22]
Collection of various papers from John Ely, Revolutionary war colonel. Mostly receipts. Some documents mention prisoners.
GLC01450.143
27 April 1861
Pinckney, Henry Laurens, 1794-1863
Tri-weekly mercury. [Vol. 56, no. 11, 136 (April 27, 1861)]
Minutes of an Officer in Fort Sumter, Harper's Ferry Affair, Fayetteville Arsenal Surrendered, The Border War.
GLC05959.44.04
February 14, 1821
Pickman, Dudley L., 1779-1846
[Massachusetts resolution authorizing the governor and executive council to take measures necessary to settle the state's claim against the federal government]
Resolution submitted by Pickman and copy issued by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Alden Bradford. The state was seeking $11,000 remuneration for defense expenses from "the late war," probably the War of 1812. The date refers to its approval by...
GLC06313.04.135
4 May 1847
McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885
Orders no 25
Orders his men to "lead the march to the enemy capital," of Mexico City, during the Mexican War. Warns his men not to straggle as "The impotent & cowardly enemy propose to wage the war of the assassin - war to the knife." Promises that soon they...
GLC08953.02
February 1, 1863
Jones, John, fl. 1862-1864
to his wife
Says that he postponed sending this letter earlier in fear of someone taking the 10 dollars he was sending. Notes how the city of Memphis gets men drunk. Mentions his plans after the war is over. Gives his opinions on the war and "the Negro" in...
GLC05981.15
1 January 1944
Weiner, Morris "Moe", 1909-1988
to Sylvia Weiner
Moe asks Sylvia to think back to New Year's Day 1937 when Chiang Kai-Shek was kidnapped. No one knew that later that year the war with Japan would start. It was "one of the unexpected milestones" to war and to his being there.
GLC09414.0899
11 April 1862
Cushing, Edward H., 1829-1879
The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 28, no. 11, whole no. 3506 (April 11, 1862)]
Information to Texas planters. Editorial on New Mexico affairs. War in the West and in Virginia. Escape of Confederate prisoners.
GLC05959.51.029
28 April 1864
William Lloyd and Co. (Richmond, Va.), fl. 1861-1865
Daily Richmond examiner. [Vol. 18, no. 51 (April 28, 1864)]
Immense debt of the North, what the war has cost, Fight between Mosby & Yankees.
GLC05959.72.094
23 October 1783
Washington, George, 1732-1799
to Henry Knox
Mentions the return of General Benjamin Lincoln. Hopes the transition to a peacetime military establishment will commence without further delay. Does not think Congress intends to abolish the Office of Secretary at War (which Lincoln held from 1781...
GLC02437.09402
circa 1861-1865
Pontoon Bridge on James River
Inscriptio on verso: "War Views. Pontoon Bridge on the James River, Richmond, Va. No. 3274." Numeric notation on verso: "249."
GLC05111.01.0858
September 15, 1862
Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864
to Mary Hughes
Piety among prisoners of war and lack thereof among political prisoners; conversation with Judge Foster (a fellow inmate).
GLC02166.065
1812/06/26
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
An Act concerning Letters of Marque, Prizes & Prize Goods.
Copy of the act along with "Instructions for the Private Armed Vessels of the United States," in this case, issued to privateer Captain George Taylor of the ship Amiable. Issued one week after the declaration of war in the War of 1812. Signed by...
GLC04616
January 24, 1791
Hull, William, 1753-1825
Discusses a petition Michael Jackson is presenting to Congress for compensation for the wounds he received while [fighting in the Revolutionary War]. Says Jackson is requesting half of a Brigadier General's salary which was the rank he held at the...
GLC02437.09821
August 17, 1863
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to Frederic P. Stanton
Follow-up letter discussing the addition of evidence in a Court of Inquiry case. Written on War Department letterhead.
GLC00496.044
1 April 1865
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
[Partially-printed attestation of Edward D. Townsend's credentials]
Stamped as page 98. Labeled "Exhibit C," in support of Secretary of War Stanton's deposition (GLC00720.01).
GLC00720.04
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